Mena Correctional Colony (No. 91)
Mena Correctional Colony (No. 91) is a medium-security institution of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine, located in the settlement of Makoshine, Koriukivka district, Chernihiv region.
The institution is a specialised colony where, among others, former employees of courts, law enforcement agencies, and other state bodies defined by Ukrainian legislation serve their sentences.
Furthermore, the institution operates minimum and maximum security sectors for certain categories of convicts, in accordance with the requirements of the Criminal-Executive Code of Ukraine. The history of the institution began in 1982, when an order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR created an institution for the construction and subsequent operation of a correctional colony complex and a reinforced concrete products plant. The first years of its activity were connected with the construction of the regime and production facilities, in which various categories of convicts participated.
Throughout its history, the institution has changed its profile of activity multiple times. Over the years, it functioned as a medical-labour dispensary and a high-security correctional-labour colony; following the reform of the Ukrainian penal system, it attained the status of a medium-security correctional colony. A colony-settlement sector also functioned on its premises for a certain time, and later, a separate Domnytsia Correctional Colony (No. 135) and a correctional centre were created. An important milestone in the institution’s history was 1992, when the first convicts from among former law enforcement officers were transferred there. Subsequently, the Mena Correctional Colony was designated as a specialised institution for the detention of this category of convicts.
It retains this status today, which determines the specifics of its contingent and the particularities of the institution’s organisational activities.
Mena Correctional Colony (No. 91) is regularly monitored by the National Preventive Mechanism, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, and international and Ukrainian human rights organisations. During monitoring visits, assessments are made of the conditions of detention for convicts, the provision of the right to medical care, access to legal aid, the exercise of the right to work, material and living conditions, disciplinary practices, social and educational work, and other aspects of human rights compliance. Based on these visits, the institution receives recommendations regarding the improvement of detention conditions, medical provision, the organisation of convicts’ work, the refinement of disciplinary practices, the development of resocialisation programmes, and the alignment of the institution’s activities with the requirements of the Criminal-Executive Code of Ukraine, the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, the recommendations of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), and other international standards in the field of human rights protection.
Contact information: State Institution “Mena Correctional Colony (No. 91)”. Address: 15652, Chernihiv region, Koriukivka district, urban-type settlement of Makoshine, Druzhba Lane, 5
Head: Bondarenko Maksym Vasylovych
Telephone: (04644) 4-11-58
Email: [email protected]